This was clearly on the horizon 12+ months past when the safeguards were being gutted.
Timothy D. Snyder and that circle of American historians were calling it out even before, on the basis of close reading the Project 2025 document and other signs.
The people who invented the internet came from all over the world. They worked at places as varied as the French government-sponsored computer network Cyclades, England’s National Physical Laboratory, the University of Hawaii and Xerox. But the mothership was the US defense department’s lavishly funded research arm, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) – which later changed its name to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) – and its many contractors. Without Arpa, the internet wouldn’t exist.
There may have been worldwide influences, but there is a reason it took hold and flourished in the United States, and other capitalist countries first. It all happened with capitalism in full swing, it was financed and built with the engine of capitalism driving it. It's disingenuous to pretend that capitalism is the problem and what is actually holding things back. It's childish and destructive. God pray we don't actually get to find out what these envious, spiteful people will spawn if they manage to destroy the system that has produced more wealth and prosperity than any other invented by man. They have no plan, or indeed any clue, what will arise out of the ashes.
> but there is a reason it took hold and flourished in the United States
Because we're special. Full stop. I talked like this when I was a teen. "How are you gonna run your computers if you destroy us" (because we were the only people who could make software and computers).
> get to find out what these envious, spiteful people will spawn if they manage to destroy the system that has produced more wealth and prosperity than any other invented by man.
We generated a lot of wealth via slavery. Do you get it? The USA has exploited and HARMED other countries. If you're unaware, research it. Did your clothes become cheap because workers in Indonesia got a fair paywage similar to your loved ones? Or were people paid almost nothing to finance your lifestyle.
Oh, also the countries who hate a bully are envious and spiteful. It has nothing to do with throwing our weight around to eliminate and install autocrats because we love democracy and freedom.
I'm in a massive grain belt ATM, as a sign of the times I can't place whether that's a reference to GM crops or the immediate issue of fuel and fertilizer.
Visualising full 256 channel multispectral data can be tricky, the approach taken above was to take the raw data and process it to create a false colour RGB image representing the strength and interaction between natural background potassium, thorium, and uranium.
It's been kicking about in geoscience collections, mining company archives, etc. for a while.
Russians, South Africans, USAians, et al all run crews - we (Australia) have done Australia, Mali, other African regions, all of Fiji (many islands), India in May 1998 (the Pokhran-II nuclear test sites as they happened), and elsewhere.
The data is one thing, processing raw spectrometer data is a whole other thing - calibrations, corrections, dead time, etc.
This is a different kind of radiometric data that is available:
The EUropean Radiological Data Exchange Platform (EURDEP) consists of data exchange mechanism and presentation website for radiological monitoring data which is collected and shared by 39 participating countries in almost REAL TIME.
Certainly useful for a mapping European normal background, the details under the hood could be a pain (types and formats of data, etc), it's historic and ongoing chronological data for distributed fixed points.
Their interactive public play map is normalised(?) raw total counts, _not_ a spectrum of gamma events bucketed by energy - ideally they are also recording and sharing full spectrum data at some stations in their network .. and making that publically available.
Off hand, I'm not familiar with any public facing portals for downloading raw data.
Bear in mind, these are "snapshot" static, historic, broad area spectrum maps - they're not live, they won't show new leaks, changes, etc.
They are, however, "training data" for forming a kernel of a NASVD - Noise Adjusted Singular Value Decomposition - a bundle of all the major features of typical regular environmental radiation for some locale.
If you fly about or have an instrument taking live readings and subtracting a normalised background kernel .. you get the faint trace "weird arse stuff" lighting up instead of being buried.
Finland's the home of the NASVD author, the country used to run "find a barrel of waste" in a forrest compitions back in the day, they're adjacent to some radiometrically filthy submarine docks and pens just over a border.
The game goes thus - fly at about 70m/sec about 80m above the deck in some kind of frame carrying 30 to 40 litres of doped crystal packs .. and pick out a signature in near real time from one second spectrum windows.
Why settlle for AI generated slop imitation Australian bands edging third Reich references when there's legitimate hand crafted Aussie gold such as TISM's Defecate on My Face and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel's I'll Meet You in Poland Baby
You might be interested in the vast world of public policy.
There's more to the world than banned / not banned.
In this instance, people might want a sensible pragmatic government to levy against companies that have high numbers of items ending up in eWaste processing (or discarded in fly tipping) and offer reductions to companies that invest in eWaste processing and collection.
There are also legitimate total lifetime cost of item models that suggest clean, fast, simple manufacturing that leads to a product hard to deconstruct might actually be "cheaper" in time, resources, and energy across a large consumer population than a functionally equivalent item designed to be "unbuilt" and rebuilt (ie repaired).
> clean, fast, simple manufacturing that leads to a product hard to deconstruct
This seems like a total fantasy. Do you actually have any examples of non-repairability making the process cheaper?
Sure there are lots of economical incentives to making stuff that you use until it breaks and then throw away, but that's just because the cost of e.g. mining metals or taking care of e-waste are externalized, due to using unethical labor in third world countries. If the "large consumer population" of the west actually had to bear the real cost of the electronics they produce, things would be vastly different.
Another point regarding your last paragraph, there are actually tons of examples of Apple (and others) making a more complicated (and thus expensive) design sorely to prevent independent repair shops from providing cheap repairs, thus "encouraging" customers to buy a replacement, or use Apple's own "repair", which just replaces entire parts instead of repairing them, and bills enough for Apple's liking.
Timothy D. Snyder and that circle of American historians were calling it out even before, on the basis of close reading the Project 2025 document and other signs.
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